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10 Dec 2016 3:19:55pm

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The Zionist project is actually to establish Eretz Yisrael, 'from the Nile to the Euphrates'. That is why the Golan Heights are occupied, as prelude to, one day, occupying much of Syria. Of course the dwindling proportion of sane, decent, secular Israelis, may not have such Messianic obsessions and would prefer to live in that peace that Israel's neighbours have offered at least since 2002 (dismissed with contempt or ignored and denied). Unfortunately the religious extremists and racist secular fascists who now dominate Israeli society, (and increasingly so), do harbour such dreams. The refusal to leave the occupied West Bank, the constant land theft, the erection of illegal Jews-only colonies and the continued extreme brutality and abominable racism inherent in the treatment of the Palestinians, all point to the continuation of the original Zionist ambition. To deny Israeli barbarity, to blame the victims for their plight and to assert Israel's moral superiority takes some gall, but that, of course, is chutzpah.

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